{"product_id":"signs-intentionality-and-imaginability-horst-ruthrof-9789004741256","title":"Signs, Intentionality, and Imaginability: Selected Papers","description":"This book contains essays by Horst Ruthrof, tracing the author's intellectual history from his encounter with literature to his critique of the philosophy of language. If you have ever felt that our linguistic and philosophical approaches to language lack an explanation of what renders it so powerful, you share the author's motivation for writing these essays. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With tools from Locke, Kant, Peirce, and especially Husserl, the author redefines natural language as \"a set of social instructions for schematically imagining, and acting in, a world\" and gradually identifies what grants natural language its power: \u003ci\u003eimaginability\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Horst Ruthrof\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9004741259\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789004741256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/23\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 450\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.10w x 1.19d","brand":"Horst Ruthrof","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48801020838143,"sku":"9789004741256","price":140.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/signs-intentionality-and-imaginability-horst-ruthrof-9789004741256","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}